By Scott Gilfoid: In a sign that WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) is a little out of touch with what happened in his past fight in the Mikkel Kessler Super Six tourney fight last year, Froch said he still sees himself as unbeaten despite clearly losing to Kessler by a 12 round decision last year. This is sad when a fighter fails to acknowledge and thus learn from their defeats. Froch has nothing to be ashamed of from that fight. He fought tooth and nail on that night bu Kessler the better man, as he took the fight to Froch and had him backing up much of the fight. Kessler even staggered Froch at one point.

Froch said “As far as I’m concerned I’m an unbeaten fighter coming into this fight [his June 4th Super Six tournament semifinal bout against Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey].”

I hate to break this to Froch but he lost to Kessler and that’s just how it was. It’s too bad Froch can’t seem to accept the defeat and learn to live with it. Kessler fought a superb fight and exposed Froch’s slow hands, and slow footwork and his stamina issues in that fight.

Froch also had some comments about American talent Andre Dirrell, saying “I made easy work of Andre Dirrell. I’ve done more damage shaving than what Andre Dirrell did.”

What is Froch talking about? Dirrell staggered him in the 10th round, and Froch couldn’t lay a glove on Dirrell until he started fouling/roughing Dirrell up in the 5th. Froch appeared to get a gift decision in the Dirrell fight while fighting at home in front of his British fans in Nottingham. It was Dirrell, a prospect, schooling a veteran in Froch. This was the first fight that Dirrell had ever gone 12 rounds and he made the more experienced Froch look bad. Froch couldn’t land. I had Dirrell winning the fight easily by a 12 round decision. Froch got the win – while fighting at home in Nottingham, England – by a narrow 12 round split decision with two of the European judges giving it to Froch. Froch wasn’t landing clean punches, but Dirrell sure was. He was jabbing and tagging Froch with left hands. Froch only seemed to find any success when the two fighters were clinched, and Froch would land short punches while holding.

I saw more than a few rabbit punches from Froch that the referee did nothing about. I think Froch should have lost multiple points for fouling and should have been disqualified. That was not an impressive performance from Froch and I can imagine he doesn’t too good about the performance. Dirrell looked like the better fighter by far. The fact is Dirrell landed the cleaner much more effective punches while Froch hit nothing but air for the entire fight except for when the two fighters were in a clinch. That was the only way Froch found any success. His hand speed was too slow for him to land punches against Dirrell and he was definitely frustrated, but that was because of Dirrell’s incredible defensive skills.